decided

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The following year, in 1962, I decided to drop out and become an actress in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

Kevin Harris, who grew up in Washington, D.C., and decided to move to Ghana over safety and quality-of-life concerns in the United States, described the moment he became a Ghanaian citizen as "earth-shaking".

From Barron's

“The first conversation didn’t have an immediate case of the women saying that they’d decided,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

European carriers tend to hedge their fuel consumption, while the major U.S. airlines decided to largely abandon the practice in the 2010s.

From Barron's

Knowing my responsibilities, I decided not to start my own family and instead worked hard to aggressively save money for both of our futures.

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